This infrared color image shows a special reflection of the hydrocarbon lake Kivu Lacus on Saturn’s moon Titan. Kivu Lacus is the smallest lake on Titan – about 77.5 km wide, located very close to the north pole of Titan.This image was taken on July 24, 2012 by Cassini Flyby, also known as the Cassini…
The Colorado Ultra Violet Transit Experiment (CUTE) Cube Satellite launches to learn more about planets that are warmer than the Sun. Cute will collect information on the hottest planet ever discovered, including KELT-9b. The Atlas V rocket was launched from California on September 27 with Lantasat. Kevin France, a researcher at the Laboratory for Atmospheric…
The Ingenuity helicopter is known to have flown to Mars. This is the first time a vehicle has been controlled on a planet other than Earth. At present we do not have aircraft or vehicles capable of flying over other planets. But in the future, that may be the case. So if you fly in…
A piece of rock with a diameter of only 370 meters is in a light collision probability course with our Earth. It will reach its closest orbit to Earth in 2029. This time the probability of a fall is low but again it will return to 2068. The Subaru (Japanese) Telescope made a worrying discovery….
Images taken by NASA’s Juno Orbiter from 8000 km above clearly show the shadow of Io, a satellite above Jupiter. The shadow of IO, about the same size as our moon, is only a small shadow above the globular giant Jupiter. This is an event similar to our solar eclipse. The eclipse is a small…
The Van Allen Belt is an atmosphere in which high-energy charged particles are blocked by our Earth’s magnetic field. The radiation belt was discovered in 1958 by James van Allen, a physicist at the University of Iowa (USA).What are particles?The Van Allen belt has an outer belt and an inner belt .The outer belt is…
The “flash” of the impact was large enough to be seen through the telescope from Earth.The size of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot is 16,350 km (April 2017). This spot is 1.3 times the size of Earth’s.There are other spots on Jupiter that are thousands of kilometers in diameter. Perhaps this “object” that might fall to…
A giant asteroid the size of a 32-story building passed close to Earth last week. None of the world’s leading astronomical, astronomical, and astronomical observatories, including NASA, have been able to detect it. It could not be detected by intense sunlight. The asteroid passed half the distance between the Earth and the Moon above ground…
The Buran Project was introduced by the Soviet Union in 1980 in response to the US space program. The Soviet Union spent about 20 billion rubles (275 million) on it. Construction of the Buran spacecraft began in 1980, and by 1984 the first full scale orbiter had been released. The Buran spacecraft was launched in…
A lunar eclipse occurs when the earth comes between the moon and the sun and no sunlight reaches the moon. This phenomenon occurs on full moon days. But not every full moon has a lunar eclipse because the Earth has a 5 degree inclination between the path of the Sun and the path of the…
